Mastodawn

#Ngūgī’s courage to decolonize mind, language, and culture will be long remembered:

“Education as a process of alienation produces a gallery of active stars and undifferentiated mass of grateful admirers. The Olympian gods of the Greek mythology or the dashing knights of the middle ages are reborn in the twentieth century as superstar politicians, scientists, sportsmen, actors, the handsome doers or heroes, with the ordinary people watching passively, gratefully, admiringly. Kamīrīīthū was the opposite of this. The Kamīrīīthū practice was part of education as process of demystifying knowledge and hence reality. “

ron salaj May 27

EADI May 20

"The politics embedded in AI directly collide with the foundational humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence."

In our latest blog post, @ronsalaj makes the case for collective human intelligence instead of artificial intelligence
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2235

From SDGs to GPTs: Trading Solidarity for AI Automation?

By Ron Salaj In this historical moment of a deepening global polycrisis, artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to emerge as the new knowledge regime promising to transform the world. This has been amp…

Debating Development Research

ron salaj May 13

From AI's 'efficient' automation to DOGE's meme-turned-speculation, tech's promise of liberation hides a sinister side. My latest piece for @VersoBooks on how the pursuit of #AI-driven efficiency fuels the rise of #TechnoFascism

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/in-the-name-of-efficiency-the-time-of-monsters-has-arrived

In the Name of Efficiency, the Time of Monsters has Arrived

The great promise of modernity has always been efficiency. From Charles Babbage’s dream of mechanical calculation to the algorithmic optimization of labor in today’s AI-driven workplaces, efficiency is treated as an unquestioned virtue, a force that separates progress from stagnation, winners from losers, the optimized

Verso

ron salaj Apr 11

don’t fall in the RAG trap!

ron salaj Mar 7

No editing involved.

ron salaj Mar 6

Vance, Thiel and Free Speech Mafia

When JD #Vance bullies Europe on #freespeech he is merely echoing his Master’s words: “Democracy and freedom are incompatible”. It is Peter #Thiel who speaks through Vance, the latter is an object used by Thiel and #PayPalMafia.

They want highway [free speech] without speed limit [without regulations and restrictions] so they can drive their Lamborghini fast enough that they can kill anybody without any responsibility [hate speech, conspiracy theory, disinformation, payops, etc.]

In Europe, we consider free speech as fundamental and because of this we carry it with responsibility [see paragraph 2, Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights]. In other words, we want highways where rich and poor have the same speed limit, and this guides us towards a society where civic culture prevails over primitive instincts.

Free Speech Mafia (Thiel, Musk, Vance & Co) won’t pass in Europe.

ron salaj Feb 15

a lying charlatan whose Master wanted to overthrow 2020 elections, leaving 5 people dead, came to #Europe to lecture about #freespeech and #democracy. he doesn’t want democratically deliberated laws to govern; but privately-owned algorithms to become de facto the government. the underlying message of the charlatan was plain simple: we want europe to be governed by far-right nationalistic-chauvinistic parties, so we can ally (read ‘control’) them more easily. no passarán! #Munich

ron salaj Feb 8

“The evils thereby affecting the superior class are less material and less perceptible, but equally real. Their cukture tends to be sterile, to be turned back to feed on itself; their art becomes a showy display and artificial; their wealth luxurious; their knowledge overspecialized; their manners fastidious rather humane.” — #Dewey

ron salaj Feb 5

said by Alex Karp, CEO of #Palantir

“when it’s necessary to scare enemies and on occasion #kill them”

#technofascism by #PayPalMafia